[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers what it takes to be a credible journalist.


• Centauri Dreams considers the study of planets orbiting brown dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering if Sedna was captured from another star.


• The Dragon's Tales wonders if orbital probes can detect volcanism on Venus.


• A Fistful of Euros' Alex Harrowell points out that the wealthier Africa becomes the larger a source of migrants it will be.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money uses Magic Mike to study the repression of female desire.


• Marginal Revolution reports a study of Scandinavia.


• pollotenchegg maps economic growth over 2004-2014. The east did worse--the Donbas much worse--than the west.


• Spacing Toronto looks at abandoned rail lines and hidden streets in Toronto.


• Window on Eurasia looks at problems in Dagestan, suggests Russian fondness for Soviet symbols without beign aware of Soviet ideology will be a problem, and suggests that the Krajina will be a model for the Donbas republics.